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VLC Media Player ActiveX Plugin and FLAC Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA27878
Release Date: 2007-12-03
Last Update: 2007-12-07
Popularity: 19,201 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:VLC media player 0.x

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in VLC Media Player, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An error within the ActiveX plugin of VLC Media Player can be exploited to overwrite certain memory zones and execute arbitrary code when a user e.g. visits a malicious website.

Note: This affects the Windows versions only.

2) Some vulnerabilities are caused due to the use of a vulnerable version of the FLAC library, which contains multiple integer overflows.

For more information:
SA27210

Note: This may affect the Windows and Mac OS X binaries only.

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